Abstract
The stability of barotropic and baroclinic shelf slope currents currents is investigated. Assuming periodic small amplitude perturbation in along shelf direction the stability problem is reduced to an eigenvalue problem by discretization in the across shelf direction. The eigenvalue problem for the wave frequency when along shelf wave number is specified is solved numerically by using NAG-routines. Two applications are considered, one corresponding to the conditions along the Catalan shelf, northwestern Mediterranean, the other to the shelf slope west of Norway.